S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8503
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              January 4, 2024
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. JACOBSON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Insurance
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend the insurance law, in relation to supplementary unin-
   sured and underinsured motorist coverage for police agencies;  and  to
   amend a chapter of the laws of 2023 amending the insurance law and the
   vehicle  and traffic law relating to supplementary uninsured and unde-
   rinsured motorist coverage for police agencies, as proposed in  legis-
   lative bills numbers S. 439 and A. 1178, in relation to the effective-
   ness thereof
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph 5 of subsection (f) of section 3420 of the insur-
 ance law, as amended by a chapter of  the  laws  of  2023  amending  the
 insurance  law  relating  to  supplementary  uninsured  and underinsured
 motorist coverage for police agencies, as proposed in legislative  bills
 numbers S.  439 and A. 1178, is amended to read as follows:
   (5)  This  paragraph  shall apply to [self-insurance or] a policy that
 provides supplementary uninsured/underinsured motorist insurance  cover-
 age  for  bodily injury and is a policy: (A) issued or delivered in this
 state that insures against liability arising out of the ownership, main-
 tenance, and use of a fire vehicle, as defined in  section  one  hundred
 fifteen-a  of  the  vehicle  and  traffic law, where the fire vehicle is
 principally garaged or used in this  state,  or  a  police  vehicle,  as
 defined  in  section one hundred thirty-two-a of the vehicle and traffic
 law, WHERE THE POLICE VEHICLE IS PRINCIPALLY GARAGED  OR  USED  IN  THIS
 STATE;  or  (B) as specified in paragraph one of this subsection.  Every
 such policy that insures a fire department, fire company, as defined  in
 section  one hundred of the general municipal law, an ambulance service,
 a voluntary ambulance service, as defined in section three thousand  one
 of  the  public  health  law,  or a police agency, as defined in section
 eight hundred thirty-five of  the  executive  law,  shall  provide  such
 supplementary  uninsured/underinsured  motorist  insurance  coverage [no
 less than the bodily  injury  liability  insurance  limits  of  coverage
 provided  under  such  policy]  to an individual employed by or who is a
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

                                                            LBD02192-02-4
 A. 8503                             2
 
 member of the fire department, fire company, ambulance  service,  volun-
 tary  ambulance service, or police agency and who is injured by an unin-
 sured or underinsured motor vehicle while acting in  the  scope  of  the
 individual's  duties  for  the  fire department, fire company, ambulance
 service, voluntary ambulance service, or police agency covered under the
 policy, except with respect to the use or operation by such an  individ-
 ual of a motor vehicle not covered under the policy.
   § 2. Section 4 of a chapter of the laws of 2023 amending the insurance
 law  and the vehicle and traffic law relating to supplementary uninsured
 and underinsured motorist coverage for police agencies, as  proposed  in
 legislative  bills  numbers  S.   439 and A. 1178, is amended to read as
 follows:
   § 4. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply  to  poli-
 cies [and contracts] issued, renewed, modified, altered or amended on or
 after such effective date.
   §  3.  This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
 the provisions of section one of this act shall take effect on the  same
 date  and  in  the same manner as a chapter of the laws of 2023 amending
 the insurance law and the vehicle and traffic law relating to supplemen-
 tary uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage for  police  agencies,
 as  proposed  in  legislative  bills  numbers  S. 439 and A. 1178, takes
 effect.